Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , her heart in her mouth , she went into the pub , located the public call box in the lobby and dialled the number the porter had given her . |
| 2 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 3 | And presumably whatever it was the GP had give him has had tha , upset that thrombosis again . |
| 4 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 5 | The experience had given her her own shot of adrenalin and sleep was unthinkable . |
| 6 | The researchers had given me an electric thermometer , a stalk of red plastic , to put in my mouth . |
| 7 | ‘ I got a taxi , ’ she explained , remembering the odd look the driver had given her when she had confessed she had no idea where she was and wanted to go all the way to London . |
| 8 | Owning the Parrot had given them status . |
| 9 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 10 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 11 | The cement floor was cold underfoot and the water colder , so I washed quickly and jumped out on to the carpet , gratefully rubbing myself with a towel which the Sheikha had given me . |
| 12 | Lying in bed , Pilade still asleep in her arms , she remembered the journeys she had made with the Brownings and the pleasure the intimacy of the carriage had given her . |
| 13 | The ‘ Roman style ’ was not , of course , created by the Council of Trent though the Council did give it a partial façade of quasi-homophonic simplicity . |
| 14 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 15 | The men at the bar moved to give him room . |
| 16 | The teacher had given them bricks of different widths . |
| 17 | I opened the manilla envelope that the Englishman had given me . |
| 18 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |
| 19 | The masses were uneducated and the producers had given them rubbish , but what had really ensured ‘ the bloodlessness of the American film ’ was that with intellectuals alienated and excluded there had been ‘ no intelligent body ’ to shape the new medium . |
| 20 | Looking through the booklet the head had given them , I guessed that they would have some difficulty making sense of it . |
| 21 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 22 | However , the original stock which accompanied the Pilgrim Fathers from the Devon port of Plymouth in 1623 to provide them with milk , butter and cheese on the voyage continued to give them dairy produce ( not to mention beef and boot leather ) when they colonised the land . |
| 23 | Werner jerked his hand away as though the keyboard had given him an electric shock . |
| 24 | As a parting gift the Keraing had given me a scale model of the prahu we were sailing in , which I had lashed to the hull walls facing backwards . |
| 25 | And gradually it came clear to him that every job the mate had given him had been carefully chosen to help him on his way to the bridge . |
| 26 | Nor did he agree with the tag that the media had given him , that of anti-hero . |
| 27 | Before she went she shared with the fellowship group a vision the Lord had given her that she would meet a group of Christians who were asking for help with teaching and counselling . |
| 28 | He replied that the daughter could sue under trust for relief so that the whole of what the testator had given her should come to her . |
| 29 | The passport that the Colonel had given him was in the inside pocket of his anorak . |
| 30 | At Immigration he produced the Irish passport that the Colonel had given him . |